#as shown during various moments of the chunin exams arc
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Hijacking this post to say that my pet theory is that to have 'revolutionary s*suke' at the forefront of your perception of sasuke you have to have entered naruto fandom before finishing naruto (probably because it was still in serialisation). Because reading the whole thing all the way through makes it pretty clear that s*suke's fatal flaw is his (completely understandable and fair, trauma-induced) decision to view everyone else as pawns. He's right about the system, but he can't be the one to fix it because he doesn't actually care or even really perceive the common individual. His sudden desire to be Hokage immediately after planning to massacre everyone in the village is a culmination of his fatal flaw, ie: that he wasn't a revolutionary for the people, he was a revolutionary against some fuckers. Which, again, completely just and reasonable, speak your truth king, but sasuke in power would have been a definite Bad End scenario for the average poor sod. Indeed the ideal scenario for s*suke is him getting to knock down the current corrupt system and then fuck of into the wilderness to pet crows and kick people he dislikes in the balls—which is pretty much what happens, bar the actual dismantling of the system because, yknow, b*ruto needed space to happen.
Wait this got away from me a little. What i wanted to bring this 'round to is that blaming any of team 7 for s*suke pushing them away is missing the point. He's traumatized. It makes him a bit of a dick in some situations. That's fine. Him not being perfect doesn't invalidate him being a victim or even a hero.
#naruto thoughts#similarly i think sakura stans got invested around the chunin exams arc and weren't prepared for shippuden#where she has a decent arc but is more of a side character than fellow protagonist#and they blame kakashi for it#which is funny#because you can tell that kishimoto intended to show that kakashi had taught sakura a lot - specifically around genjutsu#as shown during various moments of the chunin exams arc#but his complete inability to write female characters esp. them having more than one extremely limited skill#meant that a) her growth has to happen offscreen#and b) when he wanted to make her a medic she had to shelf every other skill#and as for weird naruto fans hyperfixating on one (1) decision by a guy to give a *teaching professional* the job of teaching his student#a subject he's not that great at teaching#before that student fights his friends student#while he focuses on preparing his dangerously obsessed other student for his death match against *a literal serial killer*#well. i don't think they understood that part#or the point of the rest of naruto for that matter
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